User talk:Markedwinmiller

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COI procedure
Hi there. I welcome professional researchers to Wikipedia with the highest respect, so please don't take any of this the wrong way because we are all bound by encyclopedic policy. I see that you have used this account mostly for the purpose of adding your point of view from your own published work. This is strictly against encyclopedic WP:COI policy.

I have reverted your recent contributions due to that policy, and because they are very poorly formatted. They generally consist of a giant wall of text, with no paragraphs, giving no page numbers in the references, sometimes clobbering into existing references, and sometimes clobbering the section formatting as if trying to force the server to obey your very will instead of using its formatting commands and previewing. Your contributions are still stored in unpublished form in the articles' history on the Wikipedia server, for others to review upon your request. I'm not going to be doing that myself, because I don't have your book for verification and because I'm not a scholar on the vast and complicated subject.

You should read WP:COI very thoroughly. It's unfortunate that nobody informed you of this at your Talk page here, but they did state it in the edit message when reverting some of it long ago. As a published author, I imagine that you are familiar with the general concept of an encyclopedia, and thus you can hopefully understand that its entire existence is hinged upon the idea of neutrality WP:N. Thus, a published author's ability to weave their own point of view into the encyclopedia, presenting it as neutral encyclopedic text, is of the gravest concern to the encyclopedia's existence. That's true for anyone, whether they mean it to be or not. And secondly, obviously everyone needs to understand the basic concepts of the formatting and previewing of text so as to not ruin the article.

So, as WP:COI procedure states, please announce your credentials and affiliation on your User:Markedwinmiller user page (creating the page in the process), and propose your contributions on each of the Talk pages of the relevant articles. And please don't directly edit any more articles related to the subject matter of your published works; but rather, engage in encyclopedic procedure for review.

Again, please don't take any offense to this standard encyclopedic operating procedure, because I imagine that your proposed contributions will be mostly or fully incorporated. I assume that your work is very good, and that it may be a simple matter of review. Thank you very much for your contributions. — Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 10:18, 18 February 2015 (UTC)